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© 1985 Radcliffe College
Call No.: 82-M143--85-M247
Repository: Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute
Creator: Helene (Rosenbach) Deutsch, 1884-1982
Title: Papers, 1900-1983
Quantity: 2 cartons, 1 supersize folder, 2 folio folders, 2 folio folders
Abstract: Correspondence, photographs, notebooks, etc., of Helene Deutsch, psychoanalyst, teacher, and writer.
Helene (Rosenbach) Deutsch, psychoanalyst, teacher, and writer, was born on October 9, 1884, in Przemysl, Galicia (Austria-Hungary), the youngest daughter of Regina and Wilhelm Rosenbach; her father was a prominent lawyer. At age sixteen, HD fell in love with Herman Lieberman, a lawyer and leader of the Polish Social Democratic Party, and became an ardent political activist, organizing strikes and campaigning for the rights of women to education and employment. In 1907 she followed HL to Vienna where he was elected to parliament, and enrolled in the Medical School of the University of Vienna. She was soon absorbed in the study of medicine and in 1912, shortly before her graduation, married Dr. Felix Deutsch, an internist. Their son Martin was born in 1917. During World War I, HD gained clinical experience in psychiatry at the Wagner-Jauregg Clinic in Vienna. She was the first of Sigmund Freud's women students to undergo analysis with him, and she became a member of his circle of friends and colleagues. A respected teacher and diagnostician, she founded the Vienna Psychoanalytic Institute in 1924, and was its director for nine years. With the rise of Hitler, the Deutsches left Austria in 1934 and came to Boston, where HD resumed private practice and was an active member of the Boston Psychoanalytic Society. HD was the author of The Psychology of Women, a two-volume study (1944, 1945); Neuroses and Character Types: Clinical Psychoanalytic Studies (1965); Selected Problems of Adolescence (1967); and Confrontations With Myself (1973), an autobiography. She died in Cambridge on March 29, 1982. For a detailed account of her life, see Helene Deutsch, A Psychoanalyst's Life, by Paul Roazen (Garden City, N.Y.: Anchor Press/Doubleday, 1985).
These papers include personal and professional correspondence, photographs, notebooks, research notes, articles and book reviews, scholarly papers by HD and others, clippings, and a diary that Paul Roazen claims to be by HD (see 83v). There are also letters to FD from his childhood friend, Paul Barnay, and FD's correspondence with professional journals. Some of the correspondence is in German, Polish, or French, and a portion of it consists of photocopies of original letters; the originals are believed to have been destroyed. The bulk of the personal letters is to HD from HL, FD, and SD; and from HD to FD. The professional correspondence concerns conferences, publications, and other scholarly endeavors. Notebooks and research notes by HD are in English and German and generally contain quick jottings taken down while reading, or early drafts of books and articles. HD's papers pertaining specifically to the Boston Psychoanalytic Institute are available at the BPI.Letters to HD containing sensitive personal information have been photocopied and identifying information removed (see #29-31). The originals are closed to research until January 1, 2035.Most folder headings have been supplied by the processors; original headings are in quotation marks.There are related materials at the Schlesinger Library; see Helene Deutsch Papers, 1922-1992 (MC 578).
- Carton 1: 1-30
- Carton 2: 31-84v
The following items have been removed from the collection and donated to the Countway Library, Harvard Medical School, in May 1986:
- "President's Newsletter of the International Psycho-Analytical Association," vol. IV, no. 1; vol. V, no. 1; vol. VII, no. 1; vol. VIII, no. 2
The following item has been removed from the collection and donated to the MIT Archives in February 1986:
- Poster advertisiing concert at Massachusetts Institute of Technology